A business corporation has a hierarchical leadership that exercises authority and applies policy. Thus, it is a kind of government. Why shouldn't it BE the government? Nevada is considering a proposal from a tech company that would allow businesses to exercise civil jurisdiction, including law enforcement and the right to levy taxes. Why this is a very bad idea.
A minister calls for his fellow evangelicals to recover the disciplines of Lent and the practice of confession, which we Lutherans have but also often neglect.
An Australian law against "conversion therapy"--defined as practices that attempt to change same-sex attraction and gender identity--includes the prohibition of prayer.
Congress is considering proposals to pay a monthly subsidy to families for each child. This would be pro-family and pro-life, while also being problematic.
God created the universe "ex nihilo," from nothing. The "new creation" of salvation is also "ex nihilo." So says the new Lutheran book of systematic theology.
The American republic has always been suspicious of leaders with too much power. And yet recently, the Presidency has acquired the power and the adulation more associated with kings.
Today, virtually everything has become political: religion, relationships, education, entertainment, the arts, working, buying, eating, health, technology, etc., etc. This mindset goes back to the French Revolution, which replaced religion with politics, as what defines good and evil and gives meaning to life.
Trump supporters used to be portrayed as nationalists, as extreme patriots whose desire to "make America great again" was too laudatory of the U.S.A. Now they are being portrayed as insurrectionists and terrorists who are trying to destroy America.
Donald Trump claimed that the election was "rigged" against him. The media consistently reported that this contention was "unsupported," or even a "lie." But now, in the afterglow of Biden's victory, the left is congratulating itself on how it did, in fact, manipulate the election. "Time Magazine" gives the details in a blockbuster story.
"Freedom" is something we Americans value above all else, practically. But what does it mean? There are actually three generally-recognized kinds of freedom, plus another one that gets less attention but that may be the key to the whole concept.
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